# What are the Human Sciences?

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/what-are-the-human-sciences>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** July 6, 2016

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Defending freedom requires an interdisciplinary approach, so George H. Smith turns to the “human sciences”—and also to a definition of science itself.

[Originally published in essay form on November 5, 2013.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/what-are-human-sciences)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._